Ladder of Gold: Jewish Music from Around the World

When: Tue., March 11, 1 p.m. 2008Price: free

Best known for founding the Klezmer
Mania! festival, Oakland-based violinist/composer Kaila Flexer
presents "Ladder of Gold: Jewish Music from Around the World," a concert
for children at the Oakland Library's Eastmont
Branch (Eastmont Town Center, 7200 Bancroft Ave.,
Ste. 211, Oakland) on Tuesday, March 11. The program features Sephardic and
Mizrahi tunes and instruments as well as original works by Teslim,
the duo comprising Flexer and multi-instrumentalist GariHegedus, who can play the
violin, viola, oud, sarod, saz, setar, tar, sarangi, and other Asian-diaspora
instruments. 1 p.m. OaklandLibrary.org